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Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

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Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

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Sold for US $299, the View Plus can gauge seven critical metrics: radon , particulates, carbon dioxide, humidity, temperature, volatile organic compounds, and air pressure. Ionization can itself create ozone. The state of California has banned such ozone generators entirely. In fact, ionization can itself create ozone.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. Eventually, they’ll add equipment to spray tiny aerosol particles of calcium carbonate, the compound found in limestone, blackboard chalk, and Tums antacids.

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Life cycle analysis of three battery chemistries for PHEVs and BEVs; environmental impacts higher than expected

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On a per-storage basis, the team found that the NiMH technology was found to have the highest environmental impact, followed by NCM and then LFP, for all categories considered except ozone depletion potential. Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es103607c. Credit: ACS, Majeau-Bettez. Click to enlarge.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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In their extensive analysis of the physical and chemical composition of the emissions, McDonald and colleagues found that the most abundant pollutants were carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, NO, and NO 2. —ACES report. —ACES Review Panel. ACES background.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

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Kelly Wanser Spectrum : Where does the name of the organization come from? Spectrum : When you talk about climate interventions, are you including carbon removal and sequestration in that category? We do some work on carbon removal, but that's pretty big space with a lot of investment. Wanser: It's partly a play on words.

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Researchers Determine Process Through Which Hydrocarbon Compounds Emitted by Trees Form Aerosols, With Impact on Human Health and Climate

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secondary organic aerosol). Isoprene, a five-carbon diene formed naturally in plants and animals and a precursor of ozone, contributes more than 40% of these emissions. Global simulations show an enormous flux—nearly 100 teragrams of carbon per year—of these epoxides to the atmosphere. These epoxides are nature’s glue.

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